Test drive Mercedes Benz SLK R171 2004 - 2008 Cabriolet
Rocky to ride slowly
The least in the new sports relative from the Mercedes Boin, I want to break off the traffic light with a traffic light and carefully maneuver between the rows. And by no means because Slk does not know how to do this. You will not throw a scarf
You can look at the same subject in absolutely different ways. The first generation SLK was awarded the most contradictory assessments. Revolution in the class of relatives! The admiring hard, folding roof shouted. The girl’s car was answered by those who did not like the sugary contours of the sports Mercedes-Benz. The undoubted luck of sales is one and a half times higher than the initial plan, economists stated dryly. A spineless means of transportation, not a good bocster and Z4 in the outbars! Fans of active taxiing are still convinced.
Such is the villagers on all client companies you can’t throw a scarf. However, it was this ungrateful mission that the creators of the new SLK put on their shoulders, deciding to make a car that everyone would like and everyone.
Lover Hero Well, the beast predator of an unknown breed! Doesn't the front line resemble a formula 1 car? True, there is something in common with the nasal fairing of the McLaren silver arrow! But in the profile and back in three quarters, he is a spilled senior SL and somewhere even SLR.
You must admit that the diversity of a car in which everyone will find something curious and attractive personally for themselves, already evidence of an outstanding person. And although I do not consider myself fans of the work of designers of a German company, the new SLK struck me on the spot. The stylists had enough spirit not to make a rookore female. It has not a hint of an attempt to please the weak floor with plush softness. On the contrary, there are clear, rapid, aggressive lines in a word, a great success of the Germans. And it's not about chauvinism. It’s easy to sell women a male car, but to poke a ladies' convertible task to a strong floor.
Well, if the appearance of SLK deserves at least five, then for the interior design he earned a five with a plus. No, the new measurement in Stuttgart was not opened. But how to correctly manage to choose parts of a complex designer, in the finished form of forming a salon. So with a capital letter. Small genius here at every step. Here are the dashboard dials, drowned in two cylindrical wells. Ordinary, it seems, is a solution. It seems to you! Take a closer look at the cylinders cut along the edges, like stylish pipes of an expensive exhaust system. High Shtil! And how good the contrasting leather inserts in the doors and massive handles made in a charming retro are. And further. The interior of SLK, as the British expressed, color-sensitive, that is, is very sensitive to the color scheme. Our black and blue version is certainly not bad. But, believe me, how luxurious, more fashionable and, if you want, the combination of cream-vicinity looks more art. Picture!
Six for artistry The aesthetic component is certainly an important part of the car. Perhaps the most important. Only still not the only one. Those who blamed Slk on the girl's appearance can now swallow languages. But are critics who claimed that his only real trump card is so the cunning roof?
To begin with, however, we admit: the roof of Varioruf is really good. If, as in figured skating, it is a clarity and grace of the hard top of the SLK to deserve six zero. I click on the button, and after 22, the elegant sequence of elegant movements opens one moment of a second, an elegant sequence of elegant movements opens a naked Mercedes-Benz gaze.
By the way, SLK hides its outerwear in the trunk, not like. German engineers proudly emphasize the vario-wings, it develops so cunningly and neatly, which allows you to increase the volume of the trunk by 65 liters compared to the previous model. True, at the same time the maximum capacity (with a roof raised) ... almost the same 300 against 350 liters decreased by almost the same. But after all, spots happen in the sun. It is much more important that you can now hide the roof more often. In the sense that Slk knows how to command the weather. To a certain extent, in any case.
Practical magic session Have you ever noticed that the Germans are not inclined to pamper buyers with beautiful names of their technical desserts? Parkestronics, thermotrotor, 7ji-tone-longing green. And suddenly, in the thickets of such Presnyatins, like a flower that made its way through the thickness of the asphalt, there is something poetic air scarf.
Beautiful name and what a cool thing! Pay attention to the air ducts in the lower part of the head restraint. As you know, not beauty, but exclusively benefits for. The heat generated by a cermet heating element built into the headrest is supplied to the most problematic places during open walks: neck, throat and head.
A scarf is checked on yourself! Even when there are ten, in the windows, in a woman’s tender and warm touch really warm and drive away the thoughts that it would be good to raise the top. Easy frozen, and she does not infuriate. This, of course, is not a focus from a series of hiking along the sea, but, you know, somewhere nearby! Just do not forget that the air scarf works as expected, the side glass should be raised.
Let's go slowly Well, as designers tried, the decoration specialists and the creators of the incomparable Varioruf and Air Skaf, but the settings criticism of the driving qualities of the previous SLK really touched the living. There are no memories left from the previous scheme of suspension and steering. In front of the new relatives, a three-winged independent suspension on the racks of McExeson, and the worm mechanism of the steering replaced the more accurate and honest in the dialogue with the driver of the rail. But the SLK and the body, with a roof raised, became 46% tougher, and an improved 0.32 against 0.33 aerodynamics, and a 20% lifting force that affects the rear axle. There are new supermosis, and low -profile tires, and the whole arsenal of the most modern active security systems, and also ... However, we will not forget the SLK200 nameplate on the lid of the trunk, which limits the power potential at the mark of 163 liters. With. But do not be discouraged. The maximum speed is far over two hundred and acceleration to a hundred faster than nine seconds this is very solid. Most important: are you sure of the need for additional horses?
Personally, during the time of communication with this handsome man, I suddenly realized that I did not want to go quickly. But such nonsense did not visit me at the wheel of Bocster, Crossfire or Z4. What is the matter? Certainly not in the limited potential of the 163-horsepower relatives. It's just that you don’t seek to leave the stream in SLK, on \u200b\u200bthe contrary, I want to go so that you are seen and appreciated. And not only you, but also your beloved. Moreover, the magic of an air scarf will allow you to throw the top even in winter. I have no doubt about it at all.
Two main SLK buttons: the extreme on the left (left picture) leads an air scarf, the one that is on the right, which is varied
Useful volume to the restrictive shelf of the trunk is 210 liters
Massive door handles with taste are decorated in retro style
Elegantly executed, and most importantly, understandable even to the touch of the memory buttons in three positions of the chair
How much opium?
The price list on SLK in Russia begins with E42 900. If you share our idea about this family as a luxurious vehicle for the city definition, then it makes sense to add five fundamental positions to the list of standard equipment in a mile. This is the enamel of metallic, ultrasonic parking sensors, climate control thermatic, 5-speed automatic and air scarf. Such a car will cost E48 920. Of course, about the same cost more than the most powerful and better equipped BMW-Z4, but after all, this is eventually a Mercedes-Benz!
If you really licks you and want to play the racer, the 272-horsepower SLK350 for E56 400 and completely untied by the SLK 55 AMG E81 900. This option is unique in the only 8-cylinder engine with a capacity of 360 liters. With.
PER
Magnificent design, sample and indicative roof of the varioruf, the convenience of air scarf, chassis and steering, imprisoned for active riding
AGAINST
Modest trunk with raised roof, expensive options
Mercedes-Benz SLK200 Auto
common data
Equipped mass, kg
1390
Length x width x height, mm
4080x1775x1295
Base, mm
2430
Speed, km/h
226
Acceleration time 0100 km/h, with
8.3
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
6.5/12.6
Engine
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, in order, with a mechanical compressor
Working volume, SMZ
1796
Power, L.S. at rpm
163/5500
Torque, kgsm at rpm
24.5/3000
Chassis
Transmission
Automatic, 5-speed
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
Mikhail Medvedev, photo of Maxim Goncharov
Source: Magazine buy a car [14/2004]
